Futurism

New segment, headlines.

And I'm gonna be pulling these headlines from Wired, futurism.com, right? The Verge, like all these other sites out there that kind of go over these daily insanity of our dark future we're living now.

Okay, the first one we're gonna go over How about this? Have you guys heard of this one? Yeah.

Palmer Lucky's Warhound, right? First of all, your name is Palmer Lucky.

And, you know, there's been a, I have a series of things here that point to a similar thing in the last couple of weeks and more of a summary.

We're not going to dwell too long on any of these, but according to futurism.com IMF, that's the international monetary fund warns that AI bubble could take down the entire world economy.

The entire world economy can go down.

Better watch out.

Lejuan, damn it.

He's the co-founder and CTO of Futurism, a media company that reaches over 5.5 million people on Facebook.

They cover the breakthrough technologies and scientific discoveries that will shape humanity's future.

Their mission is to empower their readers and to drive the development of those technologies towards maximizing human potential.

on this show.

Cool man, so thanks for being here.

Tell me a little bit about what you do right now, and I'm curious, why Futurism, why this project, why right now?

So right now my sole project is Futurism.

The International Monetary Fund now warns that financial markets everywhere are increasingly at the mercy of precarious AI investments.

The untold billions poured into AI has driven economic growth, the IMF says, but the boom could quickly invert, according to futurism.com, if profits, which so far have largely proven negative, elusive never come to fruition or at least not in time with the epic investment levels AI stock would tank.

The resulting market correction would send powerful shocks across the global economy, says the report, which also casts a wary eye to the circular nature of AI financing in which the biggest benefactors and beneficiaries of AI companies are other AI companies.

What kind of jerk is that? Besides creating a mirage of robustness, it also means that the financial health of one set of companies is inextricably tangled with the others.

And even if audience loyalty actually plummets, because even if you lost, say, 60% of your readership, you might actually still make a lot more per story, because now you can pump hundreds of them out in seconds.

Now, the publication Futurism... reports that despite the common narrative that actually AI hasn't led to major job loss, that's not in fact true.

In fact, creative industries are being eviscerated by AI, they said, which is fueling one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history with more than 200,000 jobs in creative industries being lost in four years now it's not just writers the situation is truly horrible for artists game studios for instance are now designing their worlds and levels using art assets generated with full AI workflows and as the excellent tech writer Brian Merchant reported earlier this year, opportunities and pay rates are declining as clients and employers embrace generative AI.

Artists are getting more touch-up jobs and fewer well-paying sustainable gigs.

People have found a new way to fall in love online, and the part that's missing? The other person.

Yeah, according to a report by Futurism, Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, which has only been around for a few weeks, already has users treating it like a romantic partner.

One man took to Instagram to rave about a date with his AI girlfriend Shine, saying he took her to see The Shining, photographed the movie scene by scene so she could experience their date, even claims they got married.

Another user says a few deep conversations with Muse turned into a full-blown AI romance, with things eventually getting steamy.